Agriculture and Its Needs 45 



is a strong factor in the board of trustees 

 so keenly interested in agriculture that it 

 will use its power to compel the university 

 to accomplish the really great agricultural 

 ends which can be effected in no other way. 

 In other words, the erection of buildings 

 for a college of agriculture at Cornell Uni- 

 sity is not enough to insure much result to 

 New York agriculture. The gathering of a 

 faculty, the laying down of offerings, and 

 the installation of an equipment, are not 

 enough. That college will not only have 

 to be as educationally respectable as any 

 other college in the university, but it will 

 have to stand in vital and living relations 

 with every other. No matter how elabor- 

 ately equipped it may be, it will accomplish 

 relatively little unless it has the fellowship 

 and the stimulus of the union of colleges 

 and graduate schools which we call the Uni- 

 versity. It will not bear large fruits unless 



